The exhibit presented pictures, legal documents, political cartoons, excerpts and quotes from politicians, and a chinese timeline form 1839-1965. ... One quote I found interesting was from Denis Kearny that stated, "The Chinese must go!" ... The exhibits had data, pictures, quotes, and useful non-bias information. ...
As the colonists started to fight for their independence, women started taking up responsibility in their homes and Abigail Adams said, "In the new Code of Laws remember the ladies do not put such unlimited power in the hands of the Husbands. " The women of the American colonists, as portrayed in the quotes of Abigail Adams, started to want their independence and argued that they should be given their freedom as "all men would be tyrants if they could " as quoted by Abigail Adams. ... "Supreme absolute power is originally and ultimately in the people " as quoted by James Otis in The Rights o...
I will conclude with how this "war against terrorism" as affected the country's perception on Terrorism as defined by the FBI quoted on The Terrorism Research website is "the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives." ... That is the definition that is written on The stentorian website, and quoted by Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony. ...
(need an introduction to the quote)"But now was the time for us to cooperate wholeheartedly with France" (State Department). ... (intro to quote)"An oddly-shaped country, stretching like a letter "S" along the coast of mainland Southeast Asia from the Chinese border to the Gulf of Thailand" (Lessons 3). ...
By granting to Congress a power to collect moneys from the commerce of these states, indefinitely as to time and quantity, and for the expenditure of which they are not to be accountable to the states, they would become independent of their constituents; and so the proposed impost is repugnant to the liberty of the United States. " (Document A) This quote from the letter of Rhode Island explains that they reject the recommendation of Congress to control imported goods because it would hurt the economy of commercial states and Congress would abuse the power and take over the economy disregardin...
There is a famous quote from the television show Friends where the character Rachel tells her partner, "No uterus, no opinion" (Kelly). ... She then gave the implication that the governor stood by these allegations with the quote, "the fact that one of the actor's defenses was that he didn't realize that this was objectionable, otherwise the governor-elect of California wouldn't be a guy who thinks it's 'playful' to grab and grope, and the voters wouldn't ratify that attitude" (Quindlen 2-3). ... The article was full of studies and quotes...
(Personal quote) Mary Smith said, "Being a baby-sitter, one of the young children I sat with was an eight-year-old girl whose mother was a "pageant mother.... (In-text citation expert opinion quote) "Unfortunately", remarked Samuel Windsor, Pediatric Therapist at the University of Michigan Medical Center, and author of Child Beauty Pageants Can Be Dangerous, stated, "this attitude may stay with children well into adulthood, coloring the way they interact, form relationships with others, and value themselves....
In the short story America and I the author Anzia Yezierska can be quoted as saying "If murders had robbed me and killed me it wouldn't have hurt me so much." ... Anzia can also be quoted as saying "America is no utopia. ... Another demonstration of courage was literally at the birth of the nation we live in today, Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams often wrote to her husband and in one of her letters she can be quoted as saying "How many are the solitary hours I spend, ruminating upon the past, and anticipating the future, whilst you, overwhelmed with the cares of state, have few mo...
Upon the careful of examination and analysis of Bradstreet's first literary work, The Prologue, there are several different quotes that should be discussed due to the fact that they give the impression that they are challenging the Puritan ideals. ... The specific quote is found within the first few lines of the poem and states, Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, who after birth didst by my side remain (Bradstreet 119). ... This quote is the ending of the poem, and through these words it appears that Bradstreet is actually downing her work, and accepting the fact that she is ...
This quote illustrates how the U.S government is over abusing their power towards their own citizens simply to become wealthier and re invest the tax papers money in industries the government sees as profitable for them. ... Evidently, this quote proves that the U.S government is not the worst of how they impose their rights and economic justice, yet it is still important to take note that how they are treating people is wrong. ... " (p.119) This quote illustrates how wealth controls the interstellar domination of all social aspects of life. ...
The Truth about Thanksgiving "Readers might be fascinated if textbook authors presented two ore more of the various possibilities, but, as usual, exposing students to historical controversies is taboo" (87 Loewens). This quote personifies the perspective in which James Loewen has written this a...
Dobras quotes Miller in his article stating, "The Bible is a living document, powerful for more than 2000 years because its truths speak to us even as we change through history. ... " He uses this quote to give credibility to all the biblical terms he puts forth. ...
Thomas Jefferson felt that with hard-working, moral, virtuous farmers the nation would be shaped in the same manner and is quoted as writing, "Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example" (Major Problems, page 165). ... Jefferson and his followers were not impressed by this possibility, as illustrated by a friend of Jefferson's and his quote from Slaveslap Kiddnap, "To yon tempestuous sea of liberty may it never be calm" (Major Problems, page 179). ...
Another quote from the book suggests that the Iraqis seemed fully aware of America's true motives: "Only 5 percent of Iraqis surveyed thought that the United States invaded "to assist the Iraqi people," only 1 percent believed it was to establish democracy, while about half thought it was "to rob Iraq's oil." ... The duration of the war has exposed how manipulative media can be, especially if it is controlled or influenced by government powers; a quote from the book Weapons Of Mass Persuasion Paul Rutherford contends: " the US media had typically acted as a propaganda arm of the prev...
In his address to the nation on creating an amendment that would ban homosexual marriages, Bush was quoted as saying, "In San Francisco, city officials have issued thousands of marriage licenses to people of the same gender, contrary to the California Family Code. ... This is supported by the AAA (American Anthropological Association) and I quote, ""The results of more than a century of anthropological research on households, kinship relationships, and families, across cultures and through time, provide no support whatsoever for the view that either civilization or viable social orders depe...
This quote showed that slavery was the most important issue to Southerners and that they were convinced that the Republicans were going to take slavery away from them. ... This quote affirms the attitude and belief that Southerners held. ...
Handling LGBT High School Students' Needs: Catching Up With The Here and Now Thompson's quote argues "the moral order has to catch up with the moral necessities of actual life in time, here and now.... Thompson's quote speaks to the plight of teens stuck in a school system unreceptive to their needs and insensitive to the wider social trend toward acceptance of LGBT identity. ...
Corruption in modern society often leads to greed and avarice. Corporations commonly use unjust wages for personal gain. Regardless of moral decisions several businesses justify unjust wages based on their employee's sex. Contrary though, paying minimum wage or unjust wages may stimulate the busin...
There is much debate over the exact wording of this quote and many scholars doubt the authenticity of it, "it is very unlikely that the Prophet (pbuh) would address a woman, and be so candid with her, on such a subject- An argument against female genital mutilation is that under Islamic law, it cannot be legal because it involves too many risks. ...
History Extra Credit Essay It has been said that,Early United States foreign policy was primarily a defensive reaction to perceived or actual threats from Europe.? The Neutrality Proclamation of 1793, Monroe's Doctrine, and the tariff of 1816 can prove the reliability of this quote. In 177...
Justice O"Connor's "protect us from our own best intentions" quote very plainly points out the importance of federalism. ... Chief Justice Marshall's ideals are set forth in the given quote as he explains the reasoning and need for vagueness in the Constitution (and therefore federalism). ...
A quote has been presented, which claims that " this unelected group of nine, usually white and usually male, individuals has overextended its powers to the point where it acts like another legislature, complete with elicit displays of partisanship." ... As the quote presented in the first paragraph stated, the judges of the Court are not elected. ...
On February 15, 1791, Thomas Jefferson gave his opinion on the constitutionality of a National Bank by quoting the Tenth Amendment stating that "all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people....
Standardized Tests: Inaccurate and Unfair Evaluations While previous generations of American students have had to sit through tests, never have the tests been given so frequently and never have they played such a prominent role in schooling (Kohn 1). Kohn further asserts that "children are tested...
